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Sam Monfort, a Doctoral Candidate at George Mason University, has created a series of visuals that illustrate the trends in UFO reporting. The post We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens Because It’s Not Aliens. But Check Ou...

The Atlas 5 401 is scheduled to launch at 12:50 p.m. Eastern March 1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceNews.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - With so many exciting projects competing for the finite time of SpaceX's super talented engineers, something important had to give. And that something comes in the form of slipping the blastoff...

Once the E-ELT is completed in 2014, it will be the largest optical/infrared observatory in the world. The post Rise of the Super Telescopes: The European Extremely Large Telescope appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright ...

NROL-79 took off at 12:50 pm Eastern from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on ULA's 21st mission for the intelligence agency. SpaceNews.com

Astronomer Amber Straughn will present a free live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time about NASA’s revolutionary space observatory --

Thomas Pesquet: Bangalore, in India. It's strange how cities at night all look so different....

A rocket carrying a classified U.S. satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from California.

Former Senator Dan Coats, nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence, said he was "shocked" to learn India had deployed 104 satellites from a single rocket. SpaceNews.com

During an annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference in Washington, NASA acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot will moderate a discussion with NASA astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space S...

Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, these black holes feed on the large disks of gas that sw...

ESA and NASA space telescopes have made the most detailed observation of an ultra-fast wind flowing from the vicinity of a black hole at nearly a quarter of the speed of light.

The NROL-79 reconnaissance satellite launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 1, 2017, rising into the skies above California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. See photos of NROL-79 and its liftoff here.

Global satellite fleet operator SES expects to turn around its enterprise connectivity business by focusing on more deals like the one it signed with Facebook last year. SpaceNews.com

Non-stop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the Moon may be in for a rough ride even if all goes to plan.

The United Launch Alliance rocket launched the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-79 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 1, 2017.

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency cleaned U.S. spacesuit cooling loops and collected water samples for a periodic maintenance check today. Afterward, he began charging spacewalking gear including helm...

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider reveal subtle distinctions in how matter and antimatter decay --

A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ever created, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold dark matter -- sluggish particles that comprise the bulk of matter in the un...

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researcher...

A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ever created, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold dark matter--sluggish particles that comprise the bulk of matter in the univ...